[Ads-l] Spell-check strikes, again!

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jan 31 22:44:14 UTC 2017


Funny! But my guess is that's an artifact of automated speech-to-text
transcription, since "care about" and "caribou" are more soundalikes than
spellalikes.

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Letter to NYT Online:
>
> "If we somehow don't _care about_ their thoughts, surely we _caribou_ their
> actions."
>

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